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Edward How

Male 1702 - 1750  (48 years)


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  • Name Edward How  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    Born 1702  Inniskillen, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1722  Canseau (Canso), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Property 1725 
    Granted 12.6 acres on Grassy Island in Canso harbour (How's Island) 
    Occupation 1730 
    Appointed justice of the peace at Canso 
    Occupation 1736 
    Appointed to council 
    Occupation 1743 
    Shifted his headquarters to Annapolis Royal 
    Military May 1744 
    Sent to visit French settlements on the Saint John River and at Minas 
    Will 17 Oct 1744  Annapolis Royal, NS (Port Royal), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Military 1745 
    Left to defend Annapolis Royal during expedition sent to take Louisbourg and attacked by the French 
    Military 5 Dec 1746 
    Sent to Grand-Pré with 470 Massachusetts volunteers led by Colonel Arthur Noble 
    Military 11 Feb 1747 
    Attacked by Captain Nicolas-Antoine Coulon de Villiers with 295 Canadians, Maliseets, Mi'kmaqs and Abenakis (who left baie Verte on 23 January) 
    Military 11 Feb 1747 
    Badly wounded (lost the use of his left arm) and taken prisoner (later exchanged for six Frenchmen) 
    Military 11 Feb 1747 
    Second in command Louis de La Corne took over from the wounded de Villiers (La Corne's brother Luc attacked Fort Clinton on 29 June 1747) 
    Military 12 Feb 1747 
    Captain Benjamin Goldthwaite signed the act of capitulation 
    Military 1749 
    Appointed judge of the vice-admiralty court, he is sent to Halifax where he sits on council with Cornwallis 
    Military 9 Jul 1749 
    Sent to the St. John River with Captain John Rous with the vessels the Albany and Boston to parley with the Indians 
    Military 4 Sep 1749 
    Signed a peace treaty with Chief Michel Narreyones that had been translated to him by Françoise Le Borgne de Belle-Isle 
    Military Aug 1750 
    Accompanied Charles Lawrence to the Isthmus of Chignecto with a view to stopping French military incursions 
    Military 4 Oct 1750 
    Shot while returning from a parley to secure the release of some English prisoners 
    Died 4 Oct 1750  Missaguash River (border between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Shot on the banks of the Missaguash 
    Probate 19 Jan 1751  Annapolis Royal, NS (Port Royal), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Fort Lawrence, Acadia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I10104  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Family 1 Deborah Cawley,   b. 24 Feb 1705, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jan 1744, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 38 years) 
    Married 6 Dec 1724  Salem, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F5476  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Marie Madeleine Winniett,   b. 30 Jul 1718, Annapolis Royal, NS (Port Royal), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jun 1779, Annapolis Royal, NS (Port Royal), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 60 years) 
    Married Jun 1744  Annapolis Royal, NS (Port Royal), Acadie Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F5198  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S94] Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes, Stephen A. White, (Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton, 1999), 1588.

    2. [S643] Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB/DBC), (University of Toronto Press & Les Presses de l'université Laval, 1966, 1969, 1974, 1979 & 1982), Volume III, pp. 297-298, 421, 483-484 & 665.

    3. [S753] Généalogie des familles acadiennes avec documents, Placide Gaudet, (Document de la session N° 18, Ottawa, 1906), 404.

    4. [S93] Série d'articles, Père Clarence-J. d'Entremont, (Yarmouth Vanguard, Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Écosse, 3 janvier 1989 - 27 novembre 1990), 21 mars 1989 & 24 avril 1990.

    5. [S606] Histoire du Canada, huitième édition, revue et augmentée par Hector Garneau, François-Xavier Garneau, (Éditions de l'Arbre, Montréal, 1944), Tome V, Livre 8, chap. 2, pp. 28-29.

    6. [S586] A History of Nova Scotia, or Acadie, Beamish Murdoch, Esq., Q. C., (James Barnes, Halifax, N. S., 1865-1866), Volume II, pp. 191-194 & 104-115.

    7. [S644] Dictionnaire général du Canada, Louis Le Jeune, (Université d'Ottawa, Canada; Imprimé en France, Firmin-Didot et Cie., Mesnil, Eure, 1931), Tome 2, pp. 19-21 & 344-346.
      Dictionnaire général de biographie, histoire, littérature, agriculture, commerce, industrie et des arts, sciences, moeurs, coutumes, institutions politiques et religieuses du Canada. Joseph-Claude Boucher de Niverville: Le 4 avril 1747, à la tête de 69 Abénaquis et de 10 Canadiens, M. de Niverville attaqua un fort près de Fall Mountain, à l'endroit où s'élève Charlestown (N.H.), commandé par le capitaine Stephens : ce dernier soutint avec succès un siège de quatre jours; et M. de Niverville se retira vers Deerfield et le bas de la Montagne-Blanche, où est bâtie la ville de Hartford (Conn.). Sur un espace de 40 lieues, il ravagea fortins, fermes et maisons. Il mena ses blessés au fort Saint-Frédéric; puis il forma un autre parti avec lequel 'il incendia 5 forts et environ 100 maisons.' Le 15 février 1748, il est promu enseigne en pied. Le 17 juillet, repartit avec le cadet de La Vallière, sieur de Beaubassin, 90 Sauvages et Canadiens, il attaque sans succès le fort Massachusetts et tue 5 Anglais. Also Lake George and Lake Champlain, from their First Discovery to 1759, Benjamin Clapp Butler, Weed, Parsons and Co., Albany, N.Y., 1868, pp. 54-57. 11 June 1747: An expedition started from Fort St. Frederick, at midnight, for Saraghtoga, to destroy Fort Clinton (150 feet long by 100 feet wide, with 6 wooden redoubts for barracks, situated on a hill south of the Battenkill in the present town of Easton). It was under the command of La Corne St. Luc, and comprised twenty Frenchmen and two hundred Indians. On the morning of the 18th, at the break of day, two Englishmen came outside the gate, and were fired on, when the scouts withdrew. A hundred and twenty of the English, headed by their officers, the came out of the fort, and having formed in order, marched towards the French, making a wheel so as to get near them. They halted at the spot which the scouts had abandoned, and where they had left a musket and tomahawk. At this, La Corne gave the signal for the French, who were in ambush, to rise and fire, which was accordingly done, and the English fired back, and also opened with canon and grape from the fort. The Indians, however, rushed on, tomahawk in hand, and routed the English, who had scarcely time to shut their gates. Some threw themselves into the river and were killed by blows of the hatchet and by gunshots. Forty-five prisoners were taken and twenty-eight scalps, besides those who were drowned.


  

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